Glen Ogle

[gtmspyder]

Hello David, thank you for your Email.

Well the tea strainer grass applicator does work because I have tried it on the Lochearnhead board, which I have been using as a test bed for all the control panel wiring I have been doing, and happens to be in the house being worked on.

I used this board section to check my wiring because it is only 600x600mm (2ft square) and I can easily bring it into the house and work in comfort, and it happens to carry all the elements of the track wiring to be able to test prove my wiring.

It has a point motor, using the two wire point operation circuitry and frog polarity switch, plus the route selected LED's, three mini storage sections, using the changeover relays operated by the in track reed relays to switch them and change the track diagram LED's from green to red when the section is occupied holding a loco parked, and the new relay latching and release circuitry for the relays.

Thus in this one small board, I can test prove all the circuits that are used around the whole of the Glen Ogle layout.

I'll not bore you with how I made it, this has been well covered on this and other forums, suffice to say, for less that

[gtmspyder]

Bump for Tom.

Regards,

BrianT.

[Tom Fisher]

Cheers my friend..........

             Regards.......Tom. :) ;) 8)

[gtmspyder]

Hello dear friends, long time no post :)

I wonder if anyone on the forum would like to take over my Glen Ogle layout?

Anyone not familiar with the layout can look at a blow by blow account of it's build in the postings below.

Kind regards,

BrianT

[Graeme Dunbar]

Sorry to hear that you are thinking of getting rid of the layout.

[gtmspyder]

Hello Graham, thank you for your interest.


My reasoning is a little difficult to explain, but I will try.


I suffer from depression, which comes and goes time to time, with a complete lack of self confidence.  Any set backs in what I am doing knocks my confidence and brings on a bout of lethargy.

I was  Hospital engineer for 30 odd years, with many hard learned skills and I really enjoy building and making things, and I am usually successful in what I attempt.  I have made two road going kit-cars for my son and daughter, two violins and a viola, for my son and daughter, a barrel organ for my grandson and a half size MK2 all electric Land-Rover, plus a 1200x600 sized rabbit layout in 009 and numerous other working and static models, for him.  I can turn my hands to most things, joinery, plumbing, electrics, which is my formal training, apart from brick laying for some strange reason I have never managed to do to my satisfaction.

I am considered a god send to friends and neighbours when anything breaks down or stops working as I am usually there first port of call, either to repair it, or advise them so they are not ripped off by so called tradesmen cowboys, but this in no way helps when I feel down.

So to Glen Ogle, I have enjoyed building this, it is based on a real life location in a part of Scotland I have visited many times, and it is as near as dammit to being completed.    I split the two small end sections off the main layout boards to more easily work on them indoors, and I have done a lot of modelling which has not been seen yet, to the lower of the two stations, but I found that I was becoming more and more unwilling to work on them, and I realised, that it is unlikely that they will ever be exhibited while in my care although that was the intention when I started the build.

So I thought maybe someone else would like to take it on, make it there own, and perhaps exhibit it someday, in the not too distant future, (I am after all 76 years of age), if some exhibition manager would offer it a place.

I would like to recover some of the costs involved with it's construction, but I would discuss that with any potential buyer, and I am not a greedy person, a bit sad perhaps, but not greedy.

I hope that has given an insight into my reasons for offering it on.

Kind regards,
BrianT. 

[B.Meldon]

I am sorry to hear that you wish to part with your layout Brian. In fact it is quite sad after seeing you put so much time and effort into it over the past couple of years.
I have found that I have big gaps between bouts of scenery building, sometimes years in fact! I just have to be in the right frame of mind. That said I do spend a lot of time running the trains on the layout that is complete apart from the scenery and works very well indeed so is a pleasure to operate and interesting with extensive shunting on the narrow gauge to pass the time.

Unfortunately disposing of 009 layouts to a good new home is never easy and can be quite disheartening at times.  Most, like yours, have been built from their creator

[gtmspyder]

Hello Brian, thank you for your reply.

I have had similar views from other forums I visit, so maybe I will continue to plough my lonely furrow.

Kind regards,

BrianT.

[Frank]

Hi Brian,

I am sorry to hear about your troubles and I agree very much with Brian M's view - if at all possible I would suggest keeping the layout, many modellers have layouts they never quite finish, indeed when is a layout ever finished!   If you keep it though you will be able to return to it when you feel like it which will I hope provide some enjoyment and satisfaction, particularly because of the effort you have put in so far in getting it how you want it.

Best regards

Frank

[gtmspyder]

Thank you Frank, I'm slowly being persuaded.

Regards,

BrianT.

[clayliner]

Hi there, Brian -

Like everyone else I'm sorry to hear of your current predicament. I say 'current' because change is always a possibility in life, even if we can't always foresee or envisage it - it's probably never wise to assume that things will always remain the same, whatever the situation.

Unless one is an exhibitionist, in both senses, making a working railway is primarily something we do for our own enjoyment and satisfaction [but see below]. So, if it no longer hits the spot, there's no point in feeling down about it, and certainly not in feeling guilty. So I'd suggest you just think back to all the enjoyment Glen Ogle has given you, be grateful, put it away somewhere dry and safe until things become clearer one way or another, and wait till the muse turns up again and your next project starts to crystallise in your mind. Given your track record (forgive the pun) it seems very unlikely that you won't be deeply immersed in something else in, say, a year's time. But even if not, it really doesn't matter.

Having said all that, you also need to be aware of all the pleasure you have given to us as we've journeyed with you along the Glen. So even if it has never physically left the house we have also enjoyed watching it grow and develop, and thanks for sharing the journey with the rest of us.

Your posts - if you feel like making any - will always be of interest in the future and I for one hope to see you around here for a while yet, even if you're not building a layout.

David.

[gtmspyder]

Good morning David, and thank you for your kind words.

I have been overwhelmed by the responses to my recent post, and most gratified by the words of advice I have received, thank you.

Kindest regards,

BrianT.

[Graeme Dunbar]

I'm sorry to hear you hit a rough patch, but relieved to hear that you are encouraged.

I got a pizza layout out for the first time in a couple of years over the weekend. (Mind you it is a lot easier to put a pizza layout 'on hold', especially when it lives in a hat box.) I got frustrated with the trees on it and the little bridge across the stream looks completely wrong and I could not make up my mind what to do.

You say you fear you may never exhibit the layout. It has certainly generated a lot of interest here. The control panel alone would attract a lot of attention. If you would like to show the layout then I'm sure help would be offered. It can be very fatiguing running a layout alone. Some people welcome the opportunity to operate someone else's layout and even look forward to the chance to run their own stock on another layout. Some people even bring stock along and ask to see it run.

[gtmspyder]

Hello again Graham. :)

I do indeed know how tiring it can be to exhibit a layout.

Thirty eight or so years ago, I exhibited a 1200x600mm, (4'x2' in old money) Rabbit layout I built, supposedly for my very young at the time daughter, at the York Easter exhibition, when Mike Cook was the exhibition manager, it was very enjoyable but tiring.

I was positioned in a dark corner of the old assembly rooms next Ian Futers, who had brought along his first foray with one of his circular layouts that became his trademark for a few years.

Regards,

BrianT.

[B.Meldon]

Rabbit warren layouts have fallen out of favour these days. I have a very good one,